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California Official Vows to Release Execution Drug Source

By Steve Hall

Southern Californai Public Radio reports,"Corrections chief promises to divulge how California secured lethal injection drug."  It's by Julie Small of KPCC-FM. California?s top prison official said Friday he?ll soon release information on the state?s supply of a lethal injection drug. The only US manufacturer of sodium thiopental ran out of the barbiturate. But California recently purchased a supply and refused to say where it came from. Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate told KPCC reporter Julie Small that his department is still figuring out what information it can release and when. "We understand that by being circumspect with information we?ve kind of hightened the scrutiny on the issue" Cate said, "when really I think it?s not going to end up being a state secret...continue to full post

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